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Larry Gardner
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Here is a project I recently did for a customer
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Nice! Did you do the programming from scratch or use the files I wrote for WWJ?

Getting the holes set up properly was a pain!

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Great job Larry! Nice to see you back on here.
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Thanks I am very busy right now so do not get on much. I used a JPG and imported it in V-Carve. ,
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Sneaky! Why didn't I think of that! Lol

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Seems like there should be some shortcut way of laying out those marble holes. Offset array, delete the ones you don't need perhaps? Create the star/hex shape, then nest as many copies of hole within it that will fit?

How did you draw up yours, Ralph?

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Honestly? I did a bunch of math and laid them out in CAD to get them right, took a few trys.

Then my now it all engineering student daughter looked over my shoulder and said, you could just do it this way... And was right. Of course, by then I was done!

You could download the files from WWJ, or I can send the array as a DXF if you wish.

Ralph

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